A young man was killed and three others injured when a bomb exploded on Egypt’s north coast, close to its second city Alexandria, Al-Ahram’s Arabic news website reported. The bomb targeted a security convoy on the Alexandria-Marsa Matrouh highway, 21 … read more
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on Tuesday strongly condemned the killing of a Jordanian pilot captured by the Islamic State, calling the militant group “a savage cowardly organisation that violates all heavenly doctrines,” state news agency MENA reported. El-Sisi confirmed Egypt’s … read more
Jailed Al Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy revoked his citizenship, in hopes of benefiting from a presidential decree which could see his release from prison and deportation, state television reported on Tuesday. Fahmy was sentenced to seven years in prison alongside … read more
An Improvised Explosive Device went off in the vicinity of Talaat Harb Square in downtown Cairo early Tuesday, leaving no reported casualties behind, a security source said. Alaa Abdel Zaher, head of the explosives administration at the Cairo Security Headquarters, … read more
Explosives experts defused two bombs at Cairo Airport on Tuesday, airport security director Alaa Ali told Al-Ahram Arabic news website. The explosives were planted under cars in the parking lot adjacent to terminal 3 of the airport on the eastern … read more
Al Jazeera English journalist Peter Greste was released Sunday morning upon a presidential decree, MENA state news agency confirmed. Families of journalists involved in the Al Jazeera trial, had said earlier that Australian journalist Peter Greste left prison early Sunday … read more
Cairo criminal court sentenced on Monday Islamist Mamdouh Ismail in absentia to life in prison for his role in the violent events in Roed El-Farag in the aftermath of the dispersal of pro-Morsi sit-ins in the summer of 2013, Al-Ahram … read more
A unit of the Jeddah-based Islamic Development Bank, a multilateral lending institution, has provided $80 million worth of sharia-compliant reinsurance to cover political risk for oil and gas projects in Egypt. Such credit guarantees by reinsurers like the Islamic Corporation for the … read more
Australian journalist Peter Greste will be deported to Australia on Sunday afternoon, state-run MENA cited an official as saying. According to MENA the decision comes after the approval of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The source said the Egyptian Foreign Ministry … read more
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will meet on Sunday with several heads of political parties to tackle security developments in Sinai. Mohamed Esmat al-Sadat, president of Development and Reform Party, said he received an invitation from the presidency to take part … read more